Analysis of The moon tonight

Kobayashi Issa 1763 (Shinano Province) – 1828 (Shinano Province)



The moon tonight--
I even miss
her grumbling.

Translated by Robert Hass


Scheme XXX X
Poetic Form
Metre 0101 1101 0100 0101101
Closest metre Iambic dimeter
Characters 76
Words 14
Sentences 2
Stanzas 2
Stanza Lengths 3, 1
Lines Amount 4
Letters per line (avg) 14
Words per line (avg) 3
Letters per stanza (avg) 29
Words per stanza (avg) 6
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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Kobayashi Issa

Kobayashi Issa, was a Japanese poet and lay Buddhist priest of the Jōdo Shinshū sect known for his haiku poems and journals. more…

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